The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
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The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
The information balance of power has changed, of course. A generation ago, the public could exist only as a passive audience. Information was dispensed on the industrial model: top down and one to many. That was the great age of the daily newspaper and famous anchormen on the model of Walter Cronkite. The advent of digital platforms, in a sense, cr
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I outlined three enormous challenges for the Digital Age: rising inequality, massive environmental degradation, and the risks arising from major geopolitical change. These daunting challenges could overload our political institutions and provoke a devastating conflict. Such has been the pattern of the past. Surely the prime task of our age is to re
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